Irwan Shah Bin Abdullah
🇲🇾 Anwar’s backing for Wolfowitz a big mistake
I find Anwar Ibrahim’s recent endorsement of Paul Wolfowitz as the new president of the World Bank troubling. Wolfowitz is a zealous member of the neo-conservatives and a Jewish Zionist, a small group of former-Democrats-turned-right-wingers which were extremely influential in the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq.
Wolfowitz and the neo-cons, in fact, plotted the invasion of Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries well before the Sept 11 tragedy. Here are two quotes attributed to Wolfowitz:
On January 23, 2003:
“Disarming Iraq and the war on terror are not merely related. Disarming Iraq of its chemical and biological weapons and dismantling its nuclear weapons programme is a crucial part of winning the War on Terror.”
And in 2004:
“The decision to highlight weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for going to war in Iraq was taken for bureaucratic reasons … .”
After reading the quotes above, it is clear that Anwar of Malaysia is wrong to characterise Wolfowitz as someone who ‘… passionately believes in freedom and understands the issues of poverty, environment degradation, living conditions and health issues which (are) very much a World Bank agenda’.
Wolfowitz is an extremist who is bent on spreading American hegemony around the world by any means necessary. After cutting a swathe of destruction across Iraq, he then callously admitted that the weapons of mass destruction story was brought up for ‘bureaucratic reasons’.
In other words, he is a liar and his lies cost the lives of over 100,000 Iraqis and countless other devastation. Anwar has in fact endorsed a blatant liar whose hands are dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
Once again it seems that Anwar Ibrahim is so captivated by his so-called ‘friends’ in the West that his moral judgment is compromised. Does he really believe that Wolfowitz is suddenly is going to abandon his extremist ideology and start to care for the poor and for the environment? That is laughable!
Even the Europeans and World Bank employees are terrified of his impending tenure because they know very well of his extremist views.
Anwar claims that he disagrees with Wolfowitz regarding the Iraqi invasion and that as friends, they agree to disagree on the matter. The problem is Wolfowitz is not merely a disinterested ‘friend’ with no stake in Iraq – he is one of the main architects of the Iraq war itself.
Let’s put it this Way, if Anwar were a friend of Slobodan Milosevic, would it be alright for him to say: ‘Okay Slobo, I don’t agree with you killing and raping thousands of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo but we can still be friends and agree to disagree on this matter’?
Wolfowitz is a war criminal for what he has done to Iraq and he has to be treated as one. It is morally wrong to even have any connection with him, let alone to endorse him for such an influential position.
I understand Anwar’s current push for international exposure. It is his Way of getting around the censorship of the Malaysian media and boosting his global profile. However, he must not stop so low to the point of becoming a sycophant of the Western imperialist and Zionist agenda.
If Anwar wants to criticise Muslims for not reforming then he must also forcefully criticise the West for impeding any attempt at reform, especially in places where their businesses (read: oil) and military interests are at stake.
If Anwar is a true peace-loving, anti-war, Islamic renaissance man that he claims to be, then the right thing for him to do is to cut off all ties with Wolfowitz and the other neo-cons in Washington and align himself with the true peace-loving intellectuals of the world.
Or perhaps these intellectuals are not ‘mainstream’ enough for Anwar to boost his ‘international’ image?
Anwar also needs come out clean if he accepted money from his friends in Washington such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)